Legal Self Service

Issue

High level work and simple, repetitive tasks often get mixed up in the same pipeline. That puts a strain on legal resources. It leads to cues inside the company. This frustrates the waiting crowd, causing people to start bypassing legal processes.

Sync solution

Benefits

Empower business. Increase compliance with official procedure. Reduce workload of legal department, to free them for strategic matters.

Case: Procurement

Issue

Streamlining the procurement process of a multinational

Sync solution

Document streams were analyzed, Three different risk-levels were identified. A workflow was developed in which only high risk contracts were dealt by the legal department.

Additionally, a procurement analysis tool was put in place, enabling procurement people themselves to do this analysis. Also, a dashboard was developed in order for the legal department to keep track of the number of incoming requests, their location, risk level and other key data.

Benefits

The procurement tool is a legal self-service product. It assists the procurement department in assessing the risk of new contracts. On the basis of a number of questions, the risk level of a contract is easily determined. This makes it easier also to decide whether the legal department needs to be involved. The tool decreases the number insignificant contracts for the legal departments to have a look at. At the same time it cuts turnaround time for procurement.